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From: -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV>
To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: can't delete chfn
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On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, J Wunsch wrote:

> As -Vince- wrote:
> > 
> > root@apollo [3:03am][/usr/bin] >> dir chfn
> > -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  20480 Jul 26 07:57 chfn
> > root@apollo [3:04am][/usr/bin] >> rm chfn
> > override r-sr-xr-x  root/bin schg for chfn? y
> > rm: chfn: Operation not permitted
> 
> Your famous "dir" fails to report you the immutable flag.  Better
> alias "dir" to "ls -lo" for user root.
> 
> No idea why the chflags (above in your script, not quoted here)
> failed.

	I just did alias dir ls -lo and here's the output:

root@apollo [3:58pm][/usr/bin] >> dir chfn
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  schg 20480 Jul 26 07:57 chfn
root@apollo [3:58pm][/usr/bin] >> 

	Any ideas what I can do to delete chfn so I can install the 
updated one?  Thanks!

Cheers,
-Vince- vince@apollo.COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.)
Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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